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Tipping Point And Being An Extraordinaire

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Success is attainable for everyone. When someone reaches their tipping point, that person decides that now is the time to take the leap.

Not all of us get to reach the tipping point. Some of us reach the tipping point more than once. The tipping point shouldn’t be viewed as a make or break situation. The tipping point is a way to go from normalcy to extraordinaire. You may have to reach your tipping point multiple times in order to become an extraordinaire.

Becoming an extraordinaire is easier said than done. There are two main ways to become an extraordinaire.

The first way to become an extraordinaire is by excelling in what you do differently from the competition. Being different from the competition can go from having a specialized service to a purple door at your nearby brick and mortar store.

The second way to become an extraordinaire can land you a multibillion dollar enterprise. This one is a lot more difficult to excel at since it requires a lot of thinking outside of the box. If you can find a problem in society and improve the situation of that problem or put an end to that problem, you’ve become an extraordinaire. Social media dramatically enhanced the way we communicate to each other. Social media allows us to stay up to date with celebrities, experts, friends, and others as well. You don’t have to create a social network to be a billionaire. You just need to find a way to solve a big problem in society. When that problem gets solved, people will be flocking over to the new product or services that allows them to solve that problem.

Being an extraordinaire is no easy task, but it all begins when you reach your tipping point and take the leap.

20 Proven Methods To Get More Twitter Followers

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Here is the giant list of ways to get more followers on Twitter. It is up to you to implement what is on the list:

  1. Tweet regularly.
  2. Tweet consistently.
  3. Follow people with good follow back ratios.
  4. Follow back your followers.
  5. Retweet other people’s tweets.
  6. Don’t primarily focus on tweeting what you want to tweet. Focus on tweeting what your followers want to see. You’ll get more retweets and influence this way.
  7. Promote your Twitter account on other social networks.
  8. Say something very clever about a trending topic. This will get you a lot of retweets and exposure.
  9. See when your followers are on Twitter by using Tweriod so you can figure out when to send out your best tweets. If your followers always see your best, they will continue to follow you and spread the word.
  10. Be patient. If you get 20 followers every day, you’ll get 7,300 followers every year. You’ll get more followers per day as you get more followers though.
  11. Focus on quality. Buying Twitter followers will accomplish the job of giving you more Twitter followers, but fake followers aren’t going to help your ideas spread on Twitter or any social network. The quality followers are the ones you build upon.
  12. Do something creative. Don’t do what everyone else is doing. Be different on Twitter, and in what you do, and you’ll get more followers.
  13. Start conversations because people need a reason to talk with you and tell their friends about you.
  14. Be quick and reliable. If you aren’t replying to an important tweet within 30 minutes with an accurate response, that’s not good enough because the average person is only using Twitter 23 minutes every day.
  15. Have a good bio. People need to know about you before they decide to click the follow button.
  16. Have a picture of YOU. The people with hundreds of thousands (or millions) of real followers have pictures of themselves. There are few exceptions, and for the exceptions, not all of their followers are real. If you’re afraid to put a picture of yourself on social media or the web, you’ll be afraid of doing the incredible.
  17. Tweet popular content. You can see how popular a link is right now with the URL shortener, Bitly.
  18. Look at the statistics. If one of your links is getting clicked like crazy, tweet that link tomorrow as well.
  19. Use TwitterCounter to find out when you gained the most amount of followers. By figuring this out, you’ll be able to identify what you did on a particular day that led to the best result.
  20. Tweet quality content. It’s good to tweet what other people want to see, but if you can combine that with quality, you have the winning formula.

The 3 Things Your Contest Must Do

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More people are hosting their own contests. More people are talking about creative ways to host contests and how to host them on various social networks. However, no matter which social network you use, your contest should be able to benefit you in some way. If you’re giving something away, you should get something in return.

These are the 3 things you need to focus on when it comes to hosting your own contest:

  1. Get more shares on the social network. This can mean more likes, repins, retweets, revines (depending on the social network you are using), and so on. If people share your contest on their social networks, friends and followers will learn about your contest. More people share your message, and more people enter for a chance to win.
  2. Get more followers that stick around. It’s unquestionable that hosting your own contest will get you more followers on your social networks. However, are these followers going to stick around once your competition ends? In order to get followers that stick around, make sure you frequently post updates similar to the prize you’re giving away. If you’re giving away an iPad, talking about technology would help you get followers that stick. If you review books, giving away a book will allow you to get followers that will stick around. Then, you can be sure your followers won’t just bounce back and forth to this contest and that contest.
  3. Get more subscribers for your blog. Did you check your email today? You probably did. A majority of people do the same thing. Some people check their inboxes right when they see the red circle indicating they got a new message. What if some of those messages were emails about your latest blog posts. Social networks are giant places, and it’s easy for people to get lost on them. One profile looks good today, but another profile will look even better tomorrow. At the end of your contest, you can say something like, “Subscribe to my blog for more updates about future contests and free resources as well.” This allows you to create a list, and as the contest progresses, that list gets bigger.

Virality VS Velocity

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When it comes to a YouTube video or post on a social network, everyone wants to go viral. Virality would give someone a lot of exposure in a quick amount of time. One day, the video has 100 views. Overnight, the video gets 100,000 views. That’s how virality is achieved.

However, the problem with viral is that videos and posts are constantly going viral. The viral video from a week ago gets replaced by another viral video. Interests change very quickly when it comes to viral videos. Videos and posts rarely stay viral for over a week before the next video or post takes over. If you don’t get more traffic and subscribers while you’re viral, where’s the benefit? Nowhere.

Velocity is different. Velocity is when you videos and posts are consistently viewed and shared. You aren’t jumping from 100 views to 100,000 views, but you are getting 5 views a day. Then that turns into 20 views a day. Then that turns into 50 views, 100 views, 500 views, and then 1000+ views every day from a single video or post.

With velocity, you will eventually get to 100,000 views. It will take more time to reach 100,000 views with velocity than with virality. However, velocity will eventually be able to get more views than the viral video. Velocity videos will get shared a lot once they reach 100,000 views (100,000 people know about the video), and then they might even go viral. However, that velocity will make the viral aspect last a lot longer. It won’t go from 100,000 views to a million views overnight, but getting 5,000 views for the same video every day for a month is possible.

By Learning Everything There Is To Know

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You’ll learn very little (or nothing at all). The problem is that people are exploring too many options too soon. The new Twitter account looks really cool for the first time, but there’s also Pinterest, Facebook, YouTube, Google+, LinkedIn, Reddit, Tumblr, WordPress, Blogger, Flickr, and the list goes on and on.

If you took the time to learn about every social network, you won’t be able to absorb all of that knowledge. Even if you did absorb all of that knowledge, there isn’t enough time in a day to manage all of those social networks.

There are some cool ways to manage social networks using automation, but that will only get you so far. It’s better to narrow your knowledge and time on 1-3 social network than to overstretch your knowledge and time on 4 or more social networks (however, I want to be clear that there is no magic number. You could end up doing just fine with more than 3 social networks if you adopt them all a couple of months apart. I use more than 3 social networks).

Some Of My Social Media Videos

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I did a lot of videos over the summer, and my goal is to come out with one video every week about social media, blogging, and business. Right now, there are only videos about social media and blogging, but I can guarantee you that videos about business will show up as well. If you want to learn a lot about social media and blogging, these five YouTube videos will help out a lot.

In addition to those five videos, you can subscribe to my blog where I will give you free access to the Mastering Pinterest Video Tutorial where I share my knowledge about Pinterest and becoming a power user.

You can see all of the videos here.